Women's Lacrosse Week 13 Polls (5/8/17): Media #7 / Coaches #8

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Division I Coaches Poll for May 8, 2017

The University of Maryland (19-0) finished the regular season with a Big Ten Championship, the #1 seed in the NCAA tournament, and all 20 first place votes in the IWLCA Division I Coaches Poll. Big East champion Florida (17-2) finishes in the second position, followed by North Carolina (16-2), the ACC champion, and Stony Brook (18-1), who won the America East championship. Princeton (14-3) slides into the fifth spot after taking down Penn and Cornell in the Ivy League tournament, and Penn State (15-3) drops to the sixth position after falling to Northwestern in the Big Ten semi-finals. Southern California (16-3), the MPSF champion, sits at #7, followed by Penn (13-3) at #8, Syracuse (15-6) at #9 and Colorado (16-3) in the tenth spot.

The back half of the poll includes Northwestern (10-9) at eleven, and Cornell (12-5) in the twelfth spot. A trio of ACC schools holds down the next three spots: Virginia (11-8) is #13, Boston College (13-6) sits at 14, and Notre Dame (11-7) claims the fifteenth position. CAA champion James Madison (13-6) is ranked #16, Denver (14-4) is seventeenth, followed by Louisville (11-7), Towson (12-6), and Elon (13-6) to wrap up the final spots. Both Albany (12-5) and Massachusetts (16-3) received votes in the final regular season poll.

 

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Cascade Women's Division I Media Poll: Maryland Leads Way Into Postseason

The NCAA Tournament’s No. 1 overall seed, Maryland, leads the way into the postseason atop the Cascade Women’s Division I Media Poll. The Terps sit 19-0 on the season, and are coming off the program’s second consecutive Big Ten championship.

The Terps are trailed by the No. 2 North Carolina Tar Heels into the postseason. The ACC champs punched their conference’s AQ and are the NCAA Tournament’s No. 2 overall seed.

No. 3 Florida, No. 4 Stony Brook and No. 5 Princeton round out the top five. The Gators, Seawolves and Tigers won the BIG EAST, America East and Ivy League, respectively, to win their conference’s automatic bid.

No. 18 Denver remains in the Media Poll, and is the only team currently ranked that did not earn a postseason berth.

View this week’s full top 20 rankings here.